US7526548B2 - Distributing an information image - Google Patents

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US7526548B2
US7526548B2 US10/478,887 US47888704A US7526548B2 US 7526548 B2 US7526548 B2 US 7526548B2 US 47888704 A US47888704 A US 47888704A US 7526548 B2 US7526548 B2 US 7526548B2
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H04N7/00—Television systems
    • H04N7/16—Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems
    • H04N7/162—Authorising the user terminal, e.g. by paying; Registering the use of a subscription channel, e.g. billing
    • H04N7/163—Authorising the user terminal, e.g. by paying; Registering the use of a subscription channel, e.g. billing by receiver means only
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    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/43—Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware
    • H04N21/44—Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing a video clip retrieved from local storage with an incoming video stream, rendering scenes according to MPEG-4 scene graphs
    • H04N21/4408—Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing a video clip retrieved from local storage with an incoming video stream, rendering scenes according to MPEG-4 scene graphs involving video stream encryption, e.g. re-encrypting a decrypted video stream for redistribution in a home network
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/45—Management operations performed by the client for facilitating the reception of or the interaction with the content or administrating data related to the end-user or to the client device itself, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies, resolving scheduling conflicts
    • H04N21/462—Content or additional data management, e.g. creating a master electronic program guide from data received from the Internet and a Head-end, controlling the complexity of a video stream by scaling the resolution or bit-rate based on the client capabilities
    • H04N21/4627—Rights management associated to the content
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/80—Generation or processing of content or additional data by content creator independently of the distribution process; Content per se
    • H04N21/83—Generation or processing of protective or descriptive data associated with content; Content structuring
    • H04N21/835—Generation of protective data, e.g. certificates
    • H04N21/8352—Generation of protective data, e.g. certificates involving content or source identification data, e.g. Unique Material Identifier [UMID]
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/80—Generation or processing of content or additional data by content creator independently of the distribution process; Content per se
    • H04N21/83—Generation or processing of protective or descriptive data associated with content; Content structuring
    • H04N21/835—Generation of protective data, e.g. certificates
    • H04N21/8355—Generation of protective data, e.g. certificates involving usage data, e.g. number of copies or viewings allowed

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  • connection between an image and the operated apparatus does not involve connection restriction or a function related to authentication.
  • the one or plurality of folder managing servers retain a folder managing table associating the identifier (owner user ID) of the client using the information image with the identifier (serial ID) of the second information image owned by the client using the information image. A part or the whole of information image data of the second information image may be recorded.
  • the “processing for assigning the information image” is processing in which the information image owned by the user (client) is assigned to another user (when the attribute information indicates that the information image can be assigned, which will be described later). While the user that the information image has been assigned to can own and use the assigned information image, the user that has assigned the information image cannot own or use the assigned information image.
  • the “signature and certificate” are used for authentication or the like.
  • An information image providing server 1004 accesses a user managing server 1001 to be authenticated (S 1041 ).
  • An information image providing unit 1014 of the information image providing server 1004 supplies an information image managing server 1002 with an instruction to register a master information image, an instruction to generate a copy information image, an instruction to change attribute information of a copy information image, a request to provide a state of ownership of a copy information image, and the like (S 1042 ).
  • An information image managing unit 1012 of the information image managing server 1002 registers the master information image, generates the copy information image, changes the attribute information of the copy information image, and provides the state of ownership of the copy information image.
  • the client 1005 selects the copy information image 1031 of the “ ⁇ new song” (copy information image 1101 in FIG. 11 ) (step 1408 ).
  • a pull-down menu or a plurality of buttons are displayed on a screen to allow selection of an action such for example as “view and listen,” “reproduce of all music pieces,” “reproduce and lyric display,” “attach to email,” “offline,” “assign,” “delete” . . .
  • This action menu is displayed differently for each content information image or for each type of information image.
  • the client 1005 purchases the content information image (YES at a step 1613 ), a “purchase” menu is selected, and the client 1005 is connected to the information image server 1002 (step 1615 ).
  • the master information image data 200 is identified from a master location and a master ID of the content information image, and a serial ID is added to the corresponding copy information image data 300 . Further, the serial ID is sent to the folder managing server 1003 for managing a file for each user.
  • the folder managing server 1003 manages the content information image in the form of an owned information image 1508 having the serial ID (step 1617 ). Incidentally, the folder managing server 1003 may manage only the serial ID for identifying the content information image rather than the entity of the content information image.
  • the server 1003 may manage the serial ID in conjunction with the identifying information and the attribute information of the content information image.
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